Button-setting instrument



(No Model.) Q

T S. L. PRATT.

BUTTON SETTING INSTRUMENT.

No. 278,735. Patented June 5.1883.

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UNITED STATES SATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL L. PRATT, OF HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON-SETTING INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent/No. 278,735, dated June 5, 1883. Application filed March 5,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I,- SAMUEL L. PRATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hingham, in'thev county of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Setting-Instruments for Attaching Buttons to \Vearing-Apparel of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a setting-instrument adapted to set button-fasteners of the nature described and shown in an application for Letters Patent of the United States made by me of even date herewith; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of the various parts, all as more fully hereinafter set forth. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my invention with the button fastener or hook inserted in the lower jaw. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same,

' showing the means employed for holding the button, the jaws being open. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same, showing thebutton secured in place, the jawsbeing shut. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the upper spring.

Similar letters refer to corresponding parts in all the figures.

a represents the upper jaw, b the lower jaw, of the setting-instrument, having the handles operated by'the hand, as shown. The jaw a is provided with a spring, 0, which is the means employed for holding the button 1'. The upper jaw, a, is also provided at its end with a recess, 6, for the purpose hereinafter shown. It is also provided with the slot Z, into which the point of the hook of the fistener enters and strikes, and by which it is bent when the jaws are closed, as shown in Fig. 3. The slot Z is enlarged at its base next to the spring 0, forming a channel for the shank of the button, and into which the spring 0 presses the shank, and thus holds the button; also, jaw 12 is provided with a seat, (I, which has a grooved overhanging edge. This holds the fastener f in place during the operation of at taching the button, as shown in Fig. 1.

k in Fig. 3 represents material to which a button may be attached.

o in Fig. 4 is the opening in the spring through which the hook of the fastener enters the slot Z, and is made of the peculiar shap'e shown, though I do not limit myself to this shape to hold' the shank of the button and to allow the leather to enter to some extent this opening when the jaws are shut, and so prevent the end'ofthe hook from entering the material to which the button is being attached. The operation of the instrument is very simple. First, the fastener f is inserted into the bed (I with the hook toward the handles, as shown. ton is inserted into the channel in the lower part of the slot Z, between the jaw c and the spring 0, as shown in Fig. 2, where it is held firmly in place by the channel and spring 0. The material to which the button is to be attached is then inserted between the jaws and the jaws then closed. The point of the fastener passes through the material and through the shank of the button, and strikes against the upper part of the slot 1. At the same in stant that the point of the fastener enters the material the lower side of the button 7; comes in contact with the material, and is pressed upward into the recess 6, which allows this motion' of the button, which motion draws the shank of the button into the hook of the fast ener f and holds the shank firmly against the inner side of the hook while the same is being pressed downinto place, .as shown in Fig. 3. The jaws are then opened and the material removed. with the button attached.

' It will be noticed that the point .of the fastener is flattened and smoothed by the operation of bending it down. V

The advantages of my inventionwill be readily perceived from its simplicity and durability, and its ready adaptation for the pun pose intended. 1

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters J ?atent, is a 1. In an apparatus for fastening buttons in place, the member a, provided with the slotted spring 0, recess 0, and slot Z, substantially as described.

2. The member a, provided with the spring.

0, recess 0, and slot I, combined with the mem- Then the shank of the butv of the member and extending beneath the slot,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my io hand.

SAMUEL L. PRATT.

\Vitnesses:

HARVEY H. PRATT, \Vn. T. GILBERT.

whereby the button is held firmly in place by its shank only while the button is being atl I tached, substantially as described and shown. 

